Quotes About Four Generations

#1. At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

James Thurber

#2. One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

Gloria Steinem

#3. Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

Dianne Reeves

#4. According to the wisdom of Indian Country on my own continent, it takes four generations to heal one act of violence. What

Gloria Steinem

#5. It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.

Martha Plimpton

#6. The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

Lee Child

#7. America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

Michael Bloomberg

#8. Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.

Larry L. King

#9. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. She

Malcolm Gladwell

#10. It wasn't just the size of it. It was the idea that four generations of the smartest people in the solar system had been living and working here as they helped drag humanity into the outer planets almost through sheer force of will. Amos

James S.A. Corey

#11. I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

Leonard Slatkin

#12. It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

Rebecca Adamson

#13. I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

Peter Agre

#14. Four generations of women
"I'm a woman," Mary said to herself
heading off on a journey in a car. One of the dead, one of them dying, one of the driving, one of them just staring out.

Roddy Doyle

#15. My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.

Derrick Jensen

#16. We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

Carly Fiorina

#17. Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Osbert Lancaster

#18. The four generational learning styles are Traditionalists Baby Boomers Generations X Generations Y or Millennials

Marina Arshavskiy

#19. I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.

Burt Ward

#20. even if you count back only four or five generations, you have an enormous number of living biological relatives descended from those ancestors. This is why it's not very unusual if you are descended from George Washington or another founding father or mother.

James Peoples

#21. Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and began to grow. And thus the generations past were joined to the unknowable future.

Mary Doria Russell

#22. My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

Bitsie Tulloch

#23. A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations ... four or maybe five generations.

Gina McKee

#24. Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. In four of five generations, sexual orientation will disappear and we'll just fall in love with people

Brad Boney

#26. Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

Deval Patrick

#27. I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.

Carly Fiorina

#28. Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.

Lalita Tademy

#29. In the same way many Christians
whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations
have in their possession a book which will do a thousand things not only in and for them but through them in the world. And they use it to sustain only three or four things they already do.

N. T. Wright

#30. In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

Tucker Elliot